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New climate change map adds a new factor: people
2013-09-17 15:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: In making the new map, published this week in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, a team of scientists have factored humans modifications to their environment into a new calculation of the relative threats that climate change poses to the worlds different regions. These alterations to the worlds landscapes seen in burgeoning cities, industrial centers, and farmland have already weakened certain regional ecosystems, putting them at a disadvantage as manmade changes to the global...
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